exiled leaders of STECEL, Arturo Valencia and Alfredo Represa, recently toured the coalfields of South Yorkshire the Midlands, meeting thousands of miners and their wives.
The tour covered Sheffield, Nottingham, DonChesterfield, Rotherham, Mansfield, Barncaster, sley, Leicester, Wakefield and a number of pit Villages.
Highlights included a meeting commented that spirited meeting they not led with NUM the Ing of nearly ing near The NUM meeting NUM rally few buto Highmoor an wood near Rotherham with on, miners shift hear the jointly miners the impact' workforce. Branch vi- miners Wive Salvadoreans the guest the South African Congress of Trade Unions. Al lne ena or trie evening. Notts WAPC donated f400, to be divided between SACTU and LICi Salvadoreans' federation, notable sucLOUL alu l Salvador.
Dirty Leicester Arturo their Salvador, working how they in El In striking Alfredo 'In EI showed millions of working neone in ure coola that here, in penalst Dnal a workig class movement is fighting back against injustice and exploitation.
and Alfredo heard from many miners and miners wives about their experience of police violence They commented: 'This reminds us of how it was in a Salvador at the beginn ing of our struggle. Miners 'Our experience paralleled that of the NUM, as the most politically concombative Like with us, the NUM will continue to be a Coffee harvest threatened by Contras
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John Smith translates for Arturo Valencia and Alfredo Represa at a rally with Arthur Scargill and Dennis Skinner SINCE THE beginning of the 1970s, the power workers union of El Salvador, STECEL, has played a leading role in the Salvadorean trade unions. Two